{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriages-act-1843/section-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriages-act-1843/section-27.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/6-7/86",
  "legislation_title": "London Hackney Carriages Act 1843",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-hackney-carriages-act-1843",
  "path": "section/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "No person to act as driver of any carriage without the consent of the proprietor.",
  "text": "Every driver . . . authorized by any proprietor to act as driver of any hackney carriage, . . ., who shall suffer any other person to act as driver of such hackney carriage, . . ., without the consent of the proprietor thereof, and also every person, whether duly licensed or not, who shall act as driver . . . of any such carriage without the consent of the proprietor thereof, shall forfeit the sum of level 1 on the standard scale; and every driver . . . charged with such offence who, when required by a justice of the peace so to do, shall not truly make known the name and place of abode of the person so suffered by him to act as driver . . . without consent of the proprietor, and also the number of the badge of such person (if licensed), shall be liable to a further penalty of level 1 on the standard scale; and it shall be lawful for any police constable, if necessary, to take charge of the carriage and every horse in charge of any person unlawfully acting as a driver and to deposit the same in some place of safe custody until the same can be applied for by the proprietor.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law Repeals Act 1976 (c. 16), Sch. 1 Pt XVII"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45, SIF 39:1), s. 31(5)–(9) and Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48,SIF 39:1), s. 46"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 27 substituted (22.7.2008) by Transport for London Act 2008 (c. i), ss. 1(1), 11(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60, SIF 95), s. 121(1), Sch. 6 para. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/6-7/86/section/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:36:08.599584+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}